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• Letter from Europe: Ghosts of Past Haunt Politics in Germany

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  The past caught up with the German state of Brandenburg when several legislators belonging to the Left Party, the successor to the Communist Party, admitted to collaborating with the East German secret police.
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• The Simpler Life

  
  Murderous Musings — Authority: 126
  By Mark W. Danielson The best thing about my flying job is being able to drop in on distant friends. I was recently able to visit my best buddy during a short LA layover. Dan and I grew up together, have known each other for fifty-four years, and every visit feels like old times. We did everything imaginable growing ...
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• Books of The Times: Communism’s Path: A Once-Vigorous Idea That Has Lost Its Muscle

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  Graphic arts glorified communism. Above, a 1928 German poster celebrating 10 years of the Soviet Union.
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• Top 5 Underground Stomping Grounds: Burlington, Underground City

  
  The Blogs at HowStuffWorks — Authority: 507
  One hundred feet below the town of Corsham in Wiltshire, England, is a 35-acre, once top-secret city called Burlington. And, yes, it’s a whole city. There are 60 miles of roads lined with streetlamps, a railway station, hospitals, kitchens – there’s even a pub called the Rose and Crown, according to The Times . ...
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• New Music: Diplo x Gucci Mane “Danger’s Not a Stranger (Remix)”

  
  MissInfo.tv — Authority: 651
  Now this is very cool! I’m a huge fan of Diplo (”Paper Planes,” the MadDecent mvmt, Major Lazer etc) both musically, and personally (he’s hilarious on twitter , and was very cool at the Converse Band of Ballers event I hosted). So his project to remix Gucci’s Cold War mixtapes is fascinating to me. ...
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• Its All About How You Lace Your Loafers

  
  NPR Blogs: Blog of the Nation — Authority: 432
  By Sarah Handel The Boston Globe s got a fascinating, quick slideshow called " Use Your Illusion ," about some of the actual magic tricks the CIA used during the Cold War. Weirdly, it makes me want to incorporate some of these tactics for covert information exchanges about Christmas gifts, and the smuggling of ...
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• Cold War Kids Find Their Audience

  
  Antiquiet — Authority: 495
  The Cold War Kids ‘ second album, Loyalty To Loyalty , was a more down-tempo affair than their gospelicious first album, Robbers And Cowards , and while the record was great, it left some fans longing for a return to their piano-heavy soul-stomping ways. Heeding the call, Nathan Willet and company seem to have ...
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• Youth get in bed together on Lennon anniversary

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  It was 29 years ago today that a lone gunman assassinated John Lennon and the anniversary was the spur behind a youth "bed in" at the COP15 conference center. Socres of young folks from around the world used the day to remember Lennons famous bed-in protest of the Vietnam War and to put their own spin on it. They ...
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• Mierda se habla aqui

  
  The Real Revo — Authority: 487
  Normally anything Hugo Chavez has to say isn’t much of a concern. It’s not much of a concern because he’s usually talking shit, as is the case here. Yes, he has a Kalashnikov factory setting up shop down there which is important in the minds of people who are afraid of rifles that make a lot of noise but can’t ...
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• Thank you, EPA: U.S. solar companies

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Many businesses chafed on Monday at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s declaration that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health. But executives at the two largest U.S. solar power companies took a shine to the statement, which clears the way for federal regulation and came as a global climate ...
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• Fossil of the Day Award: And the winner is…

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The UN Conference on Climate Change is a weighty gathering of serious folks looking for a way to cut carbon emissions. Its also a great place to bring some much-needed humor and along the way hammer a few perceived laggers in the fight against global warming. Enter the Fossil of the Day Awards, a tongue-in-cheek ...
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• Obama Must Finish Mr. Bush’s Work or ‘Marginalize’ the West: La Stampa of Italy

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 706
  ‘NEW COURSE’ Continuing with our global look at reaction to President Obama’s Afghan strategy, particularly within NATO, this article from Italy’s La Stampa will warm the hearts of those who believe that President Bush was on the right track. With some startling statistics, columnist Lucia Annunziata ...
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• Nazi Hunting with The Browser

  
  t5m: Love Personality, Love t5m — Authority: 561
  Nazi John Demjanjuk is on trial in Germany for his part in the extermination of thousands of Jews at Sobibor. It is for that reason that I wanted to bring everyone’s attention to the excellent interview to be found at The Browser with Times journalist Guy Walters. He is the author of eight books, which include four ...
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• French to launch spy satellite on Wednesday

  
  World Military Forum - Latest Military News — Authority: 128
  PARIS  – France plans to launch a military spy satellite on Wednesday, the defence ministry said, as Paris boosts spending on its independent surveillance from space despite closer military co-operation with the United States. Ariane 5 rocket This will be the first such launch under President Nicolas ...
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• The Great Game: U.S., NATO War In Afghanistan

  
  Pak Alert Press — Authority: 584
  Fifty or more countries in a single war theaterby Rick RozoffThe U.S. (and Britain) began bombing the Afghan capital of Kabul on October 7, 2001 with Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from warships and submarines and bombs dropped from warplanes and shortly thereafter American special forces began ground operations, ...
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• Icebergs, Copenhagen hot topics in Southern Ocean

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The Southern Ocean is toying with us, like some killer whale tossing its prey before devouring it. The small French research ship l’Astrolabe is being battered by 55 kmh (35 mph) winds and tossed like a cork in icy, three metre (9 feet) waves. Many onboard have retreated to the safety of their bunks where, ...
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• The Legacy of the Cold War Arms Race: An Interview With David E. Hoffman

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 795
  If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development. -- Aristotle It is absolutely critical for everyone , not just the arms control community, to understand the history of the Cold War: its origins, its conclusion, and how the vast weapons programs on both sides are still a ...
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• Friendlier Obama Tune on Cuba Brings Musical Detente

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban musicians are returning to perform in the United States after a long freeze on such visits, seizing the opportunity of friendlier overtures toward Havana from U.S. President Barack Obama. Well-known Cuban musicians are being granted visas to perform at U.S. venues in a sign that Obamas ...
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• NATO Still ‘Clueless’ About What to Do Next: Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Russia

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 706
  As always, with just a smattering of what Germans call schadenfreude , this article by Vladislav Vorobyev of Russia’s Rossiyskaya Gazeta lays out what, from Moscow’s point of view, NATO still doesn’t understand. First – that it isn’t Russia that NATO needs to worry about. And second – that the battle ...
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• When and how did the cold war start, and how did it lead to the two countries wanting to nuke each other?

  
  http://diddy.name — Authority: 171
  I hear a lot of different reasons on this. Was it because of the allied intervention in the Russian civil war? Was it U.S.A being stronger than Russia (Don’t see how this started it, but a lot of people say that.) Was it Russia getting stronger that worried us? Was it them directly threatening us? Or was it ...
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